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by ptaipale 7y ago
And even when implemented, it will be not what the headline says. There will be plenty of cars in Oslo, it's just limited on a few streets and central areas.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
And it's not punishable in Sweden (ie. you can walk the red light, you just have the duty to give way to vehicles and if you cause an accident, then you could be liable.)
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by ptaipale 7y ago
They can make a price advantage for TOGG, but if they do it via taxes, tariffs or subsidies, they will cripple all the other manufacturing in the country. Because car industries are expecting a downturn in the coming years, this would be a
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by ptaipale 7y ago
If there's no abjudication, then there is just retaliation. I.e. other countries will apply punitive tariffs to Turkish (car) imports. Good luck producing an entirely new car model for domestic consumption only. Even when country is as
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by ptaipale 7y ago
If Turkey intends to sell domestic cars at lower taxes than imported / ones manufactured by foreign companies in Turkey, then it can expect repercussions in its free trade deals with other countries. Not that Erdogan couldn't have
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by ptaipale 7y ago
In Scandinavia, very many (probably a clear majority) of cars are equipped with 230 V heaters. There's a connector in the front of the car, you plug the car into an electric socket which has a timer. It goes on in the morning an hour b
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by ptaipale 7y ago
That's generally not a good idea. Cable stretch is not a problem, it can be adjusted (and generally modern cars often have a self-adjust system for handbrake cable, even for manual handbrakes). Handbrake should be used to keep it effec
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Enjoying the protection of being able to insult people who deserve to be insulted? Unsworth's "provoking" certainly did not deserve the drunken, reckless response that Musk gave, nor later attempts to find dirt on Unsworth.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
For climate and environment, event that would be better than not building nuclear. But we don't need to do it so.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Yes, but the original location of site would not be approved today, precisely because of the risk that actualised in the tsunami (even though it is an extremely rare an unlikely occurrence - a tsunami which caused large-scale devastation wh
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by ptaipale 7y ago
And Fukushima was built to the requirements of 1970's, not those of today (which are much stronger).
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by ptaipale 7y ago
My father was a veteran of WWII, in the Finnish army fighting the Soviets. In (I think) 1972, I was a 6-year-old kid, and we went to the town 60 km away (we did not go there very often). Suddenly, my father exclaimed "Hei yks!" (F
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by ptaipale 7y ago
The teeth don't look particularly strange to me. Some modern dogs have teeth that look the same. Just duckduckgo "dog teeth" images.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Obviously, because of history of Internet deriving from Arpanet. The whole domain name structure grew out of the needs of the US government, even if the .com domain was largest TLD from the start.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Don't you normally say "countries" (England/Wales, Scotland, NI) instead of "nations"? (Just curious of terminology.)
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by ptaipale 7y ago
> Hate speech laws would not proscribe criticizing the President as an individual. People often advocate hate speech laws while being under the illusion that they are the ones who get to define what is hate speech and what is not.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Well, yes, but was it significant enough to warrant the post-1945 change as "back to democracy"? I feel that is pretty doubtful. As Wikipedia puts it: Overall, during the 1920s, Japan changed its direction toward a democratic sys
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Serious question: what do you mean with "back" to democracy? I have never thought of either shogunates or the imperial development after Meiji restoration as "democractic". Is there a significant democractic era in Japan
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Another point is that the rental is not always available, at least at a reasonable price. I drive most of my kilometres during certain seasons: Christmas, Easter holiday, school holidays (when visiting parents etc). These are exactly the ti
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by ptaipale 7y ago
It does not require much technical innovation, but it does require quite a lot of investment, and also some administrational red tape must be handled (how to allow and how to encourage it in terms of certifications, construction permits etc
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by ptaipale 7y ago
You're thinking of daily commuting. But some people do long drives where you don't want to stop for 24 hours to charge the car to continue. Even 2 hours is not nice.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
A question to those who downvoted this comment: why? I'm genuinely curious. It was not nasty in any way, it was readable and presented a good argument. That you disagree should not be a reason to downvote. I don't think 2000 mile
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Looks are often quite misleading when you actually start to investigate collision safety.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Ground clearance is good if you drive off-road or on very bad roads - you didn't mention that. If you drive on regular roads, 6 inch ground clearance is just fine, and you experience of the height at which you go to the car is not abou
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by ptaipale 7y ago
You can also easily google that photograph of a Mitsubishi MiEV being charged on the roadside by a Honda gasoline generator. That needs to be scale up a little bit, but it's possible to charge electric cars like that - inefficient, but
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by ptaipale 7y ago
Designed for suburban speeds - air resistance is not that important.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
A thing like VW Touran or Renault Scenic will do that for you with much smaller fuel consumption, better ride, and also easier parking in tight places. (I'm 6'2" = 188 cm and >100 kg and VW Golf Sportsvan is very convenien
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by ptaipale 7y ago
But it doesn't stop "concerned citizens" or "non-governmental organisations" from spreading misinformation about others.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
The hypocrisy was obvious at that time, and Khrushchev had to redirect the country to keep it together. Apocryphal anecdote: Following Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev gave a speech to the Politburo denouncing Stalin's policies.
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by ptaipale 7y ago
It doesn't work quite like that. People can be extradited to countries that have death penalty, as long as the country gives guarantees that death penalty (or other cruel punishment) will not be applied. Thus it is possible for a perso

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